This CD of vocal and choral works by Caian Cheryl Frances-Hoad includes music written over nearly a decade, from her first choral work There is no rose, to Beowolf, commissioned by the BBC. Beowolf is a song cycle for mezzo soprano and piano performed by Caian Jennifer Johnston.

"from supple assurance... to very funny... to austerely epic... Frances-Hoad's work shows a keen instinct for text-setting..."

"Mezzo Jennifer Johnston is a superb advocate, the glossy depth of her voice matched by the spirited intelligence of her musicality"

BBC Music Magazine

Frances-Hoad: One Life Stand
Jennifer Johnston, Joseph Middleton
I) Brief Encounter
II) The Pros and Cons
III) Tide to Land
IV) Ante-Natal
V) The Shadow Tree
VI) Rubbish at Adultery
VII) In The Chill
VIII) The Cycle

Frances-Hoad: There is no Rose
The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Geoffrey Webber

Frances-Hoad: Don’t
Jane Manning, Sue Gill, Robert Manasse

Frances-Hoad: Psalm 1
The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Geoffrey Webber, Nicholas Lee

Frances-Hoad: You Promised Me Everything
Natalie Raybould, James Young, Joseph Middleton, Rebecca Knight

Frances-Hoad: Nunc Dimittis
The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Geoffrey Webber, Rose Wilson-Haffenden

Frances-Hoad: Beowolf
Jennifer Johnston, Alisdair Hogarth
I) So
II) Grendel
III) For Twelve Winters
IV) I Had a Fixed Purpose
V) In Off The Moors
VI) Then His Rage
VII) When Hrothgar Arrived
VIII) Hildeburgh
IX) Piano Onterlude
X) A Lot Was To Happen
XI) He Rippled Down The Rock
XII) Then He Drew Himself Up
XIII) For Fifty Years
XIV) The Great People